wat On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Tim Connors <tim.w.conn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Michael Stahnke wrote: > > > * Dashboard now requires Ruby 1.8.7 to operate > > I've always found it odd that sysadmins would opt for such an unstable > language. One where minor revisions are often backwards incompatible > changes to the language. The ruby design seems to this particular > sysadmin, to be contraindicative of something that can be well > sysadminned. So it seems odd that it's the backbone of such an important > sysadmin tool. > > All distributions have a reasonable method of including a good selection > of perl modules. And perl is pretty stable over time. But this choice of > not debugging the problems with ruby 1.8.5 leads to it being impossible to > host dashboard on redhat 5 entirely. > > I don't have the freedom of not chosing rhel at work. If I provisioned a > new rhel6 server for the new puppet infrastructure, then I'd just be > pushing back the problem until next year when dashboard decided to come > out with ruby dependencies of > 1.8.7. > > Is there a great need for choosing bleeding edge features of an unstable > language for a sysadmin tool that's meant to be around for a long time > because of the amount of investment required in setting it up? > > </rant, part question> > > -- > Tim Connors > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
